Sheikh Rakan Salim

Sheikh Rakan Salim was an Iraqi sheikh who was a leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Biography
Rakan Salim was born to a family of Sunni Muslim Arabs in Iraq, and he became the sheikh of a Bedouin tribe in Iraq. During the Iraq War, the Sheikh supported al-Qaeda in Iraq, and on 18 November 2005 he paid Amin Abdul and Jafar Samad $1,000 each to videotape their bombing of a US Marine Corps humvee with an IED. The foreign fighters supplied the bomb, which killed PFC Cuthbert and severely wounded two other marines. Corporal Ramirez, the leader of the Marine team, then ordered his squad to avenge Cuthbert, and they killed 24 Iraqi civilians. Salim used this to rally several military-age Iraqi men to AQI, and they fought against the United States.